Okay, here’s another thing I’m having trouble with. One of the characters in my book is a young boy about 8 years old. I want to write a short story about two kids, a girl of, say 5, and a boy of about 7 or 8. So… how do I do it? I don’t have a lot of experience with kids, and so I’m at a loss. How do they think? How do they move? Feel? Act? Emote? I guess I have to spend some time with kids. Maybe I should start kid-sitting again.
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Read. And read some more. Go to your local library or bookstore and read books like the one you’re planning.
Also read some how-to books on the craft of writing. Your librarian can help with that.
Then start writing and keep writing until you’re faily happy with the results. Find a critique group. I never send anything out until my group has seen it. It’s amazing how your manuscript sounds when someone else is reading it out loud.
Good Luck!
William Trevor writes some great children. And so does James Baldwin. Children are hard to write, particularly in first person but it can be done.